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by bch 2y ago
> Most software will requires a proper MPI environment with a parallel file system and (often) a beefy GPU I’m but a tourist in this domain, but can you dig into this a bit more and compare/contrast w “traditional” development? I pr
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by bch 3y ago
I think it was the director of the Art Gallery of Ontario talking about “art” in an interview who said (roughly) “Art is the match - your mind is the cigar”.
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by bch 3y ago
Why am I not seeing anything here about ctags[0] or cscope[1]? Are they that out of fashion? cscope language comprehension appears limited to C/C++ and Java, but “ctags” (I think I use “uctags” atm) language support is quite broad and
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by bch 3y ago
I like how it degrades in such an analog way
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by bch 3y ago
I’ve been waiting to see ‘luckydude weigh in, but here he is by proxy. When some time ago he and I talked about this (here, or on #Tcl), the thing I recall most from our conversation is “Tichy pulled the wool over our eyes.”
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by bch 3y ago
> They started the concept in 1990s using make(1) files as their state engine That doesn’t sound unreasonable, even now…
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by bch 3y ago
The vast array of Schemes available is part of what made me eventually land at Tcl and just dig in there.
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by bch 3y ago
everything has a string rep available. It used to be that every thing was also represented literally by a string. So, for pedagogical purposes, a value 1 would be "1", and to do math, Tcl would do a strtol(val_storage), with the
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by bch 3y ago
Have my bitter sweet upvote.
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by bch 3y ago
> a subset of the Rive runtime that requires the Rive Editor to build content for From github[0]: This repository contains the renderer code and an example for how to interface with it directly. [0] https://github.com/riv
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by bch 3y ago
The shocker isn’t the mosquitoes->milk equation, but that you’re using bat milk on your cereal.
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by bch 3y ago
> I stick my Bamix into the pot and let it run until the contents are silky smooth How do you like the Bamix? I was considering replacing my aging Kitchen Aid immersion blender (which I love, but it’s starting to fall apart) with either
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by bch 3y ago
> I'm referring to the fact the eBPF will be available across Microsoft, Apple, and Linux, and there is no other technology that will be able to offer that. I don’t know if there’s some qualification I’m missing in your statement, b
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by bch 3y ago
I think people that know, know he was involved (in the userland aspect) of DTrace, but I get a sense for some reason there’s no love lost between Brendan and “DTrace”.
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by bch 3y ago
I was a little disappointed DTrace[0] was not mentioned at all. The instrumentation (not the SDN) isn’t novel, not even to Linux (DTrace is available on Linux - I understand licensing is at least questionable (for some distros), but that as
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by bch 3y ago
In Tcl, [info body …]. https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TclCmd/info.htm#M6
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by bch 3y ago
Sort of happy to see m4 mentioned, but for the uninitiated: m4 is the receiver of an awful lot of hate, because things can get unwieldy quickly. Go in with your eyes open.
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by bch 3y ago
> a lot of development happened in perforce Interesting - that I didn’t know. Based on my personal p4 experience, I’m sorry anybody else had to use it. That said - nobody has mentioned that git (and hg) was preceded and directly inspired
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by bch 3y ago
Wow! Amazed to see Apple is still committing to the repo (albeit a huge code dump, latest of which was ~5 months ago)!
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by bch 3y ago
(when shot out of a gun).
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by bch 3y ago
> wc(1) to count the number of separate programs inside coreutils self-hosting achievement unlocked
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by bch 3y ago
Richard Suchenwirth (@suchenwi in #tcl on Libera irc) is alive and well and present. And yes, impressive developer[0]. Also agree largely on “Tcl C style” - historically well ordered, coherent codebase. [0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.
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by bch 3y ago
Anybody can build a bridge that works - it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely works.
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by bch 3y ago
> regarded as a pun on QUEL, the query language of Ingres Indeed Postgres, too, is a pun on Ingres itself (post-Ingres).
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by bch 3y ago
It's literally in the name - BSD is "Berkeley software distribution". NetBSD (and Free, Open, Dragon Fly) ship kernels with original tooling and integrated 3rd party software, as a distribution.
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by bch 3y ago
* it’s got that great *BSD flavour * the community is good and nice * I think the radical portability forces good design decisions - it’s a single codebase (w machine-dependent and machine-independent components, as appropriate) that runs
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by bch 3y ago
'dang might be sympathetic, but i doubt will actually buy it for you.
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by bch 3y ago
99.9% great for young children :/
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by bch 3y ago
Alton Brown (celebrity chef, TV host, etc), was the cinematographer for the video for R.E.M.s “The One I Love”. Gary Fisher (Fisher Mountain Bikes) had worked light shows for the Grateful Dead and went on to make an officially sanctioned Gr
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by bch 3y ago
You’re not going to die on that hill. There are so many people that share your opinion that you might have trouble finding space, but you’re not going to die on that hill.

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